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come on, sandy, the next question. >> no, that was good. [laughter] the next question's right over there. >> good evening, mr. secretary, i applaud your service to the country. >> thank you. >> i'm a recent law school graduate, and the jobs forecast is not well enough in the country, and i'm wondering if you think that the road for this generation of professionals is harder than the one that those had after the aftermath of the implementation of lbj's great society. i know you had a lot of experience with that. >> you know, first of all, congratulations from graduating from law school. i dropped out. [laughter] .. you question is an important one and i think that i am as they say, i'm from the midwest. i'm an optimist and it is tough not an
come on, sandy, the next question. >> no, that was good. [laughter] the next question's right over there. >> good evening, mr. secretary, i applaud your service to the country. >> thank you. >> i'm a recent law school graduate, and the jobs forecast is not well enough in the country, and i'm wondering if you think that the road for this generation of professionals is harder than the one that those had after the aftermath of the implementation of lbj's great society. i...
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one of the things i discovered is sandy smith, he leaked more to her than to woodward. kaj: didn't know that he could trust. woodward betrayed the big part of his existence. it ended in 1973 and felt was very upset. that is one of the things that he was honest about, how upset he was with all the presidents men. he stopped talking to him. >> in regards to today, we look at the current administration. >> absolutely british as the competent relationship between sources and washington reporters and, you know, the true blue individual. the truth is why people leaked to the media is much more complicated and compromising for both sides. i think that a week for reasons that would not be principled were looked upon well by his colleagues and the way that woodward is per trade, it is a fairytale of the media is making. >> max holland is the author of "leak: why mark felt became deep throat." thank you. >> thank you. >> i was fascinated by her feminist views. you know, i'm paraphrasing, but she was born to help them. you cannot rule it out including what women want and what wome
one of the things i discovered is sandy smith, he leaked more to her than to woodward. kaj: didn't know that he could trust. woodward betrayed the big part of his existence. it ended in 1973 and felt was very upset. that is one of the things that he was honest about, how upset he was with all the presidents men. he stopped talking to him. >> in regards to today, we look at the current administration. >> absolutely british as the competent relationship between sources and washington...
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the senate will continue to help our fellow americans to help with hurricane sandy before another similar disaster strikes. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed in new york, new jersey and new england and tens of thousands of americans were left homeless by this destructive storm. we have a responsibility to aid our country men as they rebuild their lives and communities as we have after terrible floods, fires and storms in other parts of our nation. once we complete that vital legislation, the senate will take action to make this institution that we all love -- the united states senate -- work more effectively. we'll consider changes in the senate rules. because of this -- because this matter warrants additional debate, we will follow the precedent set in 2005 and again in 2011 to reserve the right of all senators to propose changes in the senate rules and we will explicitly not act in acquiescing in carrying out all rules in the congress. the senate will recess today rather than adjourn to carry out conversation on this important legislation this month. i'm confi
the senate will continue to help our fellow americans to help with hurricane sandy before another similar disaster strikes. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed in new york, new jersey and new england and tens of thousands of americans were left homeless by this destructive storm. we have a responsibility to aid our country men as they rebuild their lives and communities as we have after terrible floods, fires and storms in other parts of our nation. once we complete...
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also the victims of hurricane sandy. these were debated in the senate. we have to take prevent costumes and preventions before another hurricane sandy. thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed in new york, new jersey, and new england, and 10,000 americans were left homeless. we have a responsibility to rebuild their lives and their communities. as we have done with those who are victims of fire and other natural disasters and other parts of the nation. we will consider changes to the senate rules. because this is a matter of additional debate, we reserve the right of all senators to oppose changes to the senate rules. it is my intention that the senate rules are continued and allow these important rules discussion to continue. i'm hopeful am cautiously optimistic that the republicans and democrats can reach an agreement to manage the senate more effectively in coming months. >> republican leader? >> mr. president, i want to start by co want to start by congratulating president obama on his inauguration. presidential inauguration to always time fo
also the victims of hurricane sandy. these were debated in the senate. we have to take prevent costumes and preventions before another hurricane sandy. thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed in new york, new jersey, and new england, and 10,000 americans were left homeless. we have a responsibility to rebuild their lives and their communities. as we have done with those who are victims of fire and other natural disasters and other parts of the nation. we will consider changes to the...
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let me start in sandy hook. and we can put up some pictures of just a handful of the victims from sandy hook and from cities across this country. let me start with the little guy in the middle here. daniel barden. i talked about him this morning. daniel was a pretty amazing little boy. his parents talked about the unbelievable compassion that he had. i talked about it this morning, that he never failed to turn off a light when he left a room. he was always the kid in school that was sitting with the kid who didn't have anybody to sit with when his parents would leave a grocery store, they would get halfway across the grocery store parking lot, turn around and daniel wasn't with them because he was still holding the door open for other people who are leaving the store. he was a pretty amazing little kid. he loved spending time with his family. he loved riding the waves at the beach. you can see with that long hair he was a beach bum. played drums in a band with his brother james and sister natalie. his family is
let me start in sandy hook. and we can put up some pictures of just a handful of the victims from sandy hook and from cities across this country. let me start with the little guy in the middle here. daniel barden. i talked about him this morning. daniel was a pretty amazing little boy. his parents talked about the unbelievable compassion that he had. i talked about it this morning, that he never failed to turn off a light when he left a room. he was always the kid in school that was sitting...
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these were not sandy specific, but sandy became the catalyst of we would be better stewards of getting money out effectively and state local governments to rebuild faster tohout losing the ability maintain the fiduciary responsibility of ensuring that the dollars go towards the intended to go. we have used these not only in but in some of these that we were allowed to go to previous disasters, where we've to use estimating tools in vermont to did a big challenging project there. do somebeen able to things that quite honestly they gaves made sense, but you us the tools. fewalthough it was only a tribes impacted, this came after sovereignhink for our federally recognized tribes also something that was very unheralded. finally gave federally recognized tribal governments the recognition of their sovereignty that no longer requires them to go through a state to request declarations. that programented after the law was signed. the first tribal government that the eastern band cherokee. we did not wait for the rules to catch up. we did not wait for our to catch up. we implemented the law as
these were not sandy specific, but sandy became the catalyst of we would be better stewards of getting money out effectively and state local governments to rebuild faster tohout losing the ability maintain the fiduciary responsibility of ensuring that the dollars go towards the intended to go. we have used these not only in but in some of these that we were allowed to go to previous disasters, where we've to use estimating tools in vermont to did a big challenging project there. do somebeen...
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and sandy was awful. in the days after the storm, i toured places like rockaway, long beach, staten island, lindenhurst. those of homes were levels and those homeless. to see an elderly gentleman, mr. president, mr. ramano, sitting on his lot in the great south bay in lindenhurst, his house totally destroyed, he was sitting in one of his few possessions left, a little lawn chain, was devastating. and i asked mr. ramano, well, are you going to move? and he said, look at the view. two days after sandy, the skies were peaceful, the sun was beautiful, and it was reflected off the great south bay. he said, every year i've had 364 good days and one bad day. i'm not moving. and that story can be repeated, but the devastation was real. to drive down the streets of the rockaways or of long beach or of staten island, the south shore of staten island, and seeing house after house just piles in front of the house. not just furniture, although that was a problem. we all have our favorite chair, our favorite place to s
and sandy was awful. in the days after the storm, i toured places like rockaway, long beach, staten island, lindenhurst. those of homes were levels and those homeless. to see an elderly gentleman, mr. president, mr. ramano, sitting on his lot in the great south bay in lindenhurst, his house totally destroyed, he was sitting in one of his few possessions left, a little lawn chain, was devastating. and i asked mr. ramano, well, are you going to move? and he said, look at the view. two days after...
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we beat last year year's numberd we beat despite the fact that superstorm sandy was a hurricane and a snow storm that followed, wiped out 74 million trips that would've otherwise occurred. we hav had the second highest ridership in second transportation. you all are doing a phenomenal job. that ridership increase, these big loads of people you see on your platforms and your buses, trains, all of the country under passenger ferries, it's been incredible. we have seen ridership all over the country. we've seen in every mode as well. heavy rail is at 1.4%. light rail up 4.5%. commuter rail was up 25%. bus was up 1.2%. our services are a 4.5%. you can see from this map we saw ridership increases all of the country, east to west, cities large and small. ridership was incurring in record numbers all over this country. for those reporting, 16 agencies all time high record ridership numbers. there was a sea change going on, ladies and gentlemen, people are claiming to ride public transportation. we look at the result of that is not just the people that are getting on our trains and buses, tha
we beat last year year's numberd we beat despite the fact that superstorm sandy was a hurricane and a snow storm that followed, wiped out 74 million trips that would've otherwise occurred. we hav had the second highest ridership in second transportation. you all are doing a phenomenal job. that ridership increase, these big loads of people you see on your platforms and your buses, trains, all of the country under passenger ferries, it's been incredible. we have seen ridership all over the...
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and sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction. george, and gavin, and all of the member of the president's council thank you for supporting this important institution. i am a supporter myself so i thank you. i have been travelling around talking about the book. and i am told you are ready to ask questions and i will answer the ones i know answers to and i will respond to the others. but before i do, just a few words about the book. i spent four years writing this book. it started because my mother was with a school teacher and i would ask her what a word was and she would say look it up. and write them down and read them and remind yourself what they mean. and i started writing down thoughts or things i thought were important. i did that as a young man, a boy scout, a navy pilot, in congress, and after resigning from congress in 1969 i served in the office of economic opportunity and it was my first executive job and i made notes about that. when president ford came in he called me back to chair of transition. and then i served as
and sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction. george, and gavin, and all of the member of the president's council thank you for supporting this important institution. i am a supporter myself so i thank you. i have been travelling around talking about the book. and i am told you are ready to ask questions and i will answer the ones i know answers to and i will respond to the others. but before i do, just a few words about the book. i spent four years writing this book. it started...
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otherwise you don't care kids are killed around the country in schools and churches in places like sandy hook. for several different bullies worth pointing out. i'm going to divide this into two sections. the first is what it is we face on the other part is how we fight this because it's an overwhelming attempt by the left to silence the debate, to shut us out to copy onto being quiet because it's much easier not being a racist, sexist, bigot, who hates every minority.
otherwise you don't care kids are killed around the country in schools and churches in places like sandy hook. for several different bullies worth pointing out. i'm going to divide this into two sections. the first is what it is we face on the other part is how we fight this because it's an overwhelming attempt by the left to silence the debate, to shut us out to copy onto being quiet because it's much easier not being a racist, sexist, bigot, who hates every minority.
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so people need to clearly understand this isn't all sandy but it is as a result of sandy that we come to the process we're considering. here's what want us to begin thinking. in this country, in the year 2012, there have been 46 disaster declarations, and in the year 2011 there were 99. so, we need to invest in mitigation of funds now and i don't understand the need to delay those mitigation circumstances further. i have a statement, i am going to read it. i've been saying for a long time that we need a faster way to end-run around political games like this, or from first failure to even bring the senate boil the floor for a vote last congress, to try to hold up the vote on this bill, demonstrates exactly how important it is to have other options to get help to americans who have lost everything so they can get back up on their feet, and footnote right there, several of us have experienced in our various areas of the country, smaller disasters that don't meet the standard that large and awesome disasters like sandy, but you know something? when a person loses their house in a tornado,
so people need to clearly understand this isn't all sandy but it is as a result of sandy that we come to the process we're considering. here's what want us to begin thinking. in this country, in the year 2012, there have been 46 disaster declarations, and in the year 2011 there were 99. so, we need to invest in mitigation of funds now and i don't understand the need to delay those mitigation circumstances further. i have a statement, i am going to read it. i've been saying for a long time that...
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and sandy tested what we were made of. when we look at this photograph of twisted metal that once was a roller coaster, we associate it with the destruction of sandy. but we also associate it with how far we've come and what we've learned. we've learned that it's not enough to live in a community, we have to be a part of it. we have to remember that citizenship comes with responsibility not just to ourselves but to each other. in the face of sandy and the aftermath, the tragedy and the loss, we pull together as a community. we work together, help each other rebuild lives and businesses and homes, our beaches and boardwalks, and in doing so we strengthen new jersey's sense of pride and a belief that we are, in fact, in this all together. it is that spirit, that unity that has made negligent stronger and better than before. let me conclude, mr. president, by saying that recovery from any disaster depends on our continuing cooperation within our communities, at every level of government. the business of government is people,
and sandy tested what we were made of. when we look at this photograph of twisted metal that once was a roller coaster, we associate it with the destruction of sandy. but we also associate it with how far we've come and what we've learned. we've learned that it's not enough to live in a community, we have to be a part of it. we have to remember that citizenship comes with responsibility not just to ourselves but to each other. in the face of sandy and the aftermath, the tragedy and the loss, we...
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sandy was one of the largest mass transit disasters in the nation's history. four out of ten of the nation's transit riders had their commuters disrupted. in my home state of new jersey, our public transportation network was completely devastated by sandy. the new jersey transit, which carries more than 900,000 riders daily suffered damage to all 12 of the rail lines. the electrical substations were destroyed, hundreds of cars and locomotives were submerged, some suffering damage. the past system that carries 77 million people between new jersey and manhattan each year was brought to a halt by the flooding. the call will -- station provide service to about 30 feet of people daily reopened to the public yesterday, more than a month and a half after sandy made landfall. to help illustrate how serious the flooding was, i would like to share this image from the past security cameras showing the sea water rushing into the hoboken station. where it carries more than 8 million riders each day, the damage was unprecedented. it shut down the entire nta system for only
sandy was one of the largest mass transit disasters in the nation's history. four out of ten of the nation's transit riders had their commuters disrupted. in my home state of new jersey, our public transportation network was completely devastated by sandy. the new jersey transit, which carries more than 900,000 riders daily suffered damage to all 12 of the rail lines. the electrical substations were destroyed, hundreds of cars and locomotives were submerged, some suffering damage. the past...
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to help sandy hook. those things are difficult because sandy hook is inundated with people who want to help, even within the community. so we received lots and lots of support from around the world we wanted people to recognize the hurt them and appreciated. >> was there a point at which you thought you had gone from being somebody who is just -- not just, bigger principle looking off to the small community. did you feel any of the pressure we were hearing about -- we personally followed ensued by the press in the same way this morning? >> i'm sure pack up far more attention than i did. i responsibility was to protect the kids from the media. the fans at runtime or parked across the street from the high school for days and as respectful as they were at the school grounds and not been on school grounds, traffic at newtown high school is just like traffic at every other high school. when traffic was backed up, reporters at approach cars come as administrators and the police to try to help kids get into sch
to help sandy hook. those things are difficult because sandy hook is inundated with people who want to help, even within the community. so we received lots and lots of support from around the world we wanted people to recognize the hurt them and appreciated. >> was there a point at which you thought you had gone from being somebody who is just -- not just, bigger principle looking off to the small community. did you feel any of the pressure we were hearing about -- we personally followed...
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let me go back to hurricane sandy because it illustrates a number of points i was trying to make. you already talked about essentially some elements of the logistics of disaster response but there is an ability to be more sophisticated about that and to do model not only before hand but in real time, to engage as you said, citizens in helping to feed those models that that requires a lot of capability, infrastructure and computational power. the second part has to do with predictive capabilities. the models don't just depend on data from the internet. they come from satellites, buoys, weather stations, airliners, even commercial airliners, the issue becomes how do you bring all of that together in powerful ways that get improved predictive capability as well as perhaps having smart networks where what happens in one part of the network doesn't come in to a central point but can inform what happens to other things in that network and the final piece which i think is very powerful in terms of planning because you talk about how to build cities better but if you have -- with a popula
let me go back to hurricane sandy because it illustrates a number of points i was trying to make. you already talked about essentially some elements of the logistics of disaster response but there is an ability to be more sophisticated about that and to do model not only before hand but in real time, to engage as you said, citizens in helping to feed those models that that requires a lot of capability, infrastructure and computational power. the second part has to do with predictive...
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what happened on sandy? after nearly three months of stalling, while my state, while the presiding officer's state of connecticut, while the states of new york, new jersey and other states struck by sandy were waiting urgently for the relief that we got to the coast within 11 days. they stalled and they stalled because they could not get a majority of the republican caucus to support federal relief for our hurricane-ravaged states. under the hastert rule, they couldn't get that bill to the floor. so speaker boehner once again decided to forego the hastert rule. that's how they got the sandy emergency aid bill passed. look again at the votes. republican "yes" votes for the disaster bill: 49. republican "no" votes for that bill: 179. that bill was dead on arrival under the hastert rule. the republican caucus couldn't support it, wouldn't support it, and we would be without any help now if they followed the hastert rule. on the democratic side, what was the vote on the hurricane sandy bill? 192 yes votes to 1 n
what happened on sandy? after nearly three months of stalling, while my state, while the presiding officer's state of connecticut, while the states of new york, new jersey and other states struck by sandy were waiting urgently for the relief that we got to the coast within 11 days. they stalled and they stalled because they could not get a majority of the republican caucus to support federal relief for our hurricane-ravaged states. under the hastert rule, they couldn't get that bill to the...
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sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction. george and all the members of the presidential council, thank you so much for supporting this important institution. i appreciate it. i'm a supporter myself, so i thank you. as sandy has said, i've been traveling around talking about this book, "rumsfeld's rules," and i might just take a few minutes. i'm told you're ready to ask him questions. and i will answer the question i know the answers to. and i will respond. but before i do just a few words about this, i spend four years writing my memoirs, "rumsfeld's rules." unknown and known. as i can't think about that i can't think about "rumsfeld's rules" and i decided why i should do that. it started because my mother was a schoolteacher. and i would ask her what the word meant and she would tell me to look it up and write it down. and i started carrying little three by five cards. i still do to this day. she said at the end of the week and read them and remind us ambassador writing down the thoughts or ideas and things that i thought w
sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction. george and all the members of the presidential council, thank you so much for supporting this important institution. i appreciate it. i'm a supporter myself, so i thank you. as sandy has said, i've been traveling around talking about this book, "rumsfeld's rules," and i might just take a few minutes. i'm told you're ready to ask him questions. and i will answer the question i know the answers to. and i will respond. but before i...
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they had nothing to do with sandy hook. connecticut is one of the heavily unregulated state in the country, the nra had not many of the legislation in connecticut, the nra as a privately funded institution that receive no tax dollars. i did see anyone from the aclu being forced to explain why violent video games are okay and there are first amendment. did you? did you see anybody being girl from the aclu about that? they were growing the head of the nra saying you need to change your position. he is the head of an interest group. it is his job not to change his position. but the left expects that he is going to do and they're going to demonize him because the nra must be finished. this is their tactical maneuver. we see it on every front from class warfare, fiscal, turns out we don't want what is best for americans, we just want to help rich folks. turned out that when it comes to sexual politics is not that we believe for a good reason in traditional marriage for example. not that we believe a child deserves a mother and f
they had nothing to do with sandy hook. connecticut is one of the heavily unregulated state in the country, the nra had not many of the legislation in connecticut, the nra as a privately funded institution that receive no tax dollars. i did see anyone from the aclu being forced to explain why violent video games are okay and there are first amendment. did you? did you see anybody being girl from the aclu about that? they were growing the head of the nra saying you need to change your position....
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people asked why did the sandy bill takes a lot in the first place? they speak of the bureaucratic maze that forces those impacted by the storm to complete reams of unnecessary paperwork to be considered for federally. the details stringent federal regulations that leave little to no flexibility to local officials in other communities best. they were a pending hikes in their flood insurance rates as well. we must increase our sense of urgency to get funding out the door as quickly as possible while still remaining good stewards of taxpayer dollars always protect me against fraud and abuse treated critical we provide for accessible sensible grant programs with specifications and to avoid something that has been championed by all the people to my right to rising a flood insurance rates in the time it would bring severe economic distress. as this committee knows too well we are -- recovering from a natural disaster is a long process and it's not easy. as hard as it seems for those toiling for over year to make this work we can be sure it is much harder f
people asked why did the sandy bill takes a lot in the first place? they speak of the bureaucratic maze that forces those impacted by the storm to complete reams of unnecessary paperwork to be considered for federally. the details stringent federal regulations that leave little to no flexibility to local officials in other communities best. they were a pending hikes in their flood insurance rates as well. we must increase our sense of urgency to get funding out the door as quickly as possible...
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disaster sandy-related disaster needs. the majority of the funding is designated emergency, because of budget control act exemption applies to needs are, and i quote, sudden, urgent, unforeseen, and temporary. end of quotes. i want to emphasize these two last points. my amendment contains no earmarks unlike the senate bill. my amendment strips down authorization language inserted in the senate. mr. chairman, i request you make this an order. and i look forward to answering any questions your members may vf me. >> thank you very much. i want to, once again, public address my thanks to you for not only making yourself available to me to have these discussions that were necessary, but actually for your leadership at the time when it was very critical. when perhaps things needed a push. perhaps some things needed to be done well. i think you're mature, thoughtful approach to this helping us to work through a difficult circumstance is one that needs to be publicly acknowledged. so you have a . >> i'd like to thank many of those
disaster sandy-related disaster needs. the majority of the funding is designated emergency, because of budget control act exemption applies to needs are, and i quote, sudden, urgent, unforeseen, and temporary. end of quotes. i want to emphasize these two last points. my amendment contains no earmarks unlike the senate bill. my amendment strips down authorization language inserted in the senate. mr. chairman, i request you make this an order. and i look forward to answering any questions your...
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this was a drought problem that hurricane sandy was on top of. lake superior is a foot below the long-term average. the army corps predicts all the levels will remain below average and this is a huge problem for those getting in challenge is and those that are unable now to sail. we got apparently seven other great lakes ships come a so-called lakers it doesn't belong to will not be able to sail this summer. the damage of sandy is relevant to us compared to the other damage sande created, they seem small. if you are trying to do commerce and those harbors can function, it's a big deal for you. secretary darcy, we got an e-mail this morning saying of the 18 million estimated damage at 5 million is going to be directed to projects damaged as a result of hurricane cmd. today we got enough correctly? senator, i sat than for its me today would be providing $18 million. >> i know it was 18 to 19 altogether. that's very good news in the thank you for that. the other question -- i guess i have another minute or two. go to the question -- the question of
this was a drought problem that hurricane sandy was on top of. lake superior is a foot below the long-term average. the army corps predicts all the levels will remain below average and this is a huge problem for those getting in challenge is and those that are unable now to sail. we got apparently seven other great lakes ships come a so-called lakers it doesn't belong to will not be able to sail this summer. the damage of sandy is relevant to us compared to the other damage sande created, they...
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a cool thing about sandy, you can see it coming unlike a tornado. we can give people a lot more certainty and give them instructions and ideas about how to prepare for it so they don't have to deal with it as badly, either evacuating early or at least getting supplies ready, so i think that's something we could do a much better job at, and we're doing it closely. the second thing, for the most part we've been focusing on natural disasters. in a terrorist attack, we did actually help with the boston bombing. we turned on our person finder so people could find out where their loved ones were after the crisis because there was a lott of chaos -- a lot of chaos then. i think there's a lot of issues, there's a bad actor in play, and they need to understand what's the motivations and how they are engaging in this event and how do we make sure we be very careful how we respond. >> today there exists a system for ngos, folks on response to use voice. it's called the wireless priority service. that's over a decade old, and it doesn't have any allocations for
a cool thing about sandy, you can see it coming unlike a tornado. we can give people a lot more certainty and give them instructions and ideas about how to prepare for it so they don't have to deal with it as badly, either evacuating early or at least getting supplies ready, so i think that's something we could do a much better job at, and we're doing it closely. the second thing, for the most part we've been focusing on natural disasters. in a terrorist attack, we did actually help with the...
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hurricane sandy, i hope, reminded us of that. already sea level rise is up about 8 inches over the past century. now, these changes are very evident to rhode islanders. we've been monitoring the ocean for centuries. just outside narragansett barricks the crew of the brenton reef ship took measurements between 1878 and 1942. we've been at this a while. alarmingly, the modern temperature record from points around narragansett pay shows that since the 1960's, the annual temperature in narragansett bay has increased about 4 degrees fahrenheit. this has real life effects, crushing our winter flounder fishery, for instance. for instance. long-term data from the hide gauges in new port, rhode island, show an increase in average sea level of nearly 10 inches since 1930, and the rate of sea level rise at newport is accelerating, too. in southern rhode island, local erosion rates doubled, from 1990 to 2006. and some of our freshwater wetlands near the coast are already transitioning to salt marsh. oceans warm and expand. snow, glaciers, an
hurricane sandy, i hope, reminded us of that. already sea level rise is up about 8 inches over the past century. now, these changes are very evident to rhode islanders. we've been monitoring the ocean for centuries. just outside narragansett barricks the crew of the brenton reef ship took measurements between 1878 and 1942. we've been at this a while. alarmingly, the modern temperature record from points around narragansett pay shows that since the 1960's, the annual temperature in narragansett...
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in 1996, we had sandy hook that year, and i been editing the paper for less than a year, watching the television screen very, very similar to what we saw at sandy hook where the early reports were shooting in a school, saw these frantic parents running to the gates of the school, and this guy called hamilton shot dead 16 5-year-old children in an elementary school, a very, very similar story, and we launched a campaign at daily mirror against not assault weapons, but handguns issue and it was successful. we joined in with several other newspapers, and 18 months later, all assault weapons and almost all handguns were banned completely from great britain, gone, never came back. what's fascinating is it was never a partisan debate. it was never left and right or if you're progun you're a conservative or if you're progun control you're from wild liberal maniac. everyone agreed this was unthinkable, unconscionable to do nothing in the light of such a accident of young children. for the first few years after, gun crime rose because the full effects of the ban had not come in, and then they
in 1996, we had sandy hook that year, and i been editing the paper for less than a year, watching the television screen very, very similar to what we saw at sandy hook where the early reports were shooting in a school, saw these frantic parents running to the gates of the school, and this guy called hamilton shot dead 16 5-year-old children in an elementary school, a very, very similar story, and we launched a campaign at daily mirror against not assault weapons, but handguns issue and it was...
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and then i think, david and then sandy. >> two questions. i don't think that the people who are saying we need more focused research are saying we don't have enough knowledge to make decisions. i think what we're saying is we don't have enough knowledge to make decisions that are likely to improve the performance of the system. we can make decisions like lots of things we decide on every day without any empirical knowledge. if we want to. i think it's, sorry sandy, crazy to do that, but, you know, but i think crazily anyway. with regard to the nipsas, and, you know, dan mentioned we don't have enough money, so we're going to do it every foryears. we may not have enough money to run the same level of detail, the same size sample every three years, but perhaps we should rethink nipsas so there should be a small scale survey run annually that generates data quickly and then like the census every five years, there is a big scale. we try -- and this is a problem with the part of the department that looks at educational statistics -- we try to hav
and then i think, david and then sandy. >> two questions. i don't think that the people who are saying we need more focused research are saying we don't have enough knowledge to make decisions. i think what we're saying is we don't have enough knowledge to make decisions that are likely to improve the performance of the system. we can make decisions like lots of things we decide on every day without any empirical knowledge. if we want to. i think it's, sorry sandy, crazy to do that, but,...
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there must not be another sandy hook. you had a responsibility and an obligation to act now and to change the laws. i hope and pray that you do not fail." i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. many words have been spoken since newtown, including the very powerful words of my colleague just now, but the plain, simple fact is no words can capture what i feel about that day. no words ever will capture that day or the days and weeks and months afterward when we have grieved and healed and resolved that we will do everything within our power to make sure that that kind of massacre never happens again. but equally important that the deaths by gunfire are reduced or prevented. those 26 senseless, unspeakable deaths of 20 beautiful children and six great educators, but also the 194 children who have been killed by gunfire since new town. among the 10,000 or more deaths caused by gunfire person by person. a tragic river of sensele
there must not be another sandy hook. you had a responsibility and an obligation to act now and to change the laws. i hope and pray that you do not fail." i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. many words have been spoken since newtown, including the very powerful words of my colleague just now, but the plain, simple fact is no words can capture what i feel about that day. no words ever...
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. >> let sandy didn't say is that i have lived through one third of the history of the. [applause] which tells you what a young country it is or what an old man i am. i am so pleased to be here. sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction george and gaffe then thank you for supporting this institution. we appreciate it. i am a supporter myself and i thank you. alves sandy said life in traveling around talking about the book "rumsfeld's rules." i'm told that you are ready to ask some questions. i will answer the questions i know the answers to bid i will respond to the others. [laughter] but before i do, just a few words about this book. i spent four years writing my memoirs, "rumsfeld's rules," i mean the known and unknown and as i did that i kept thinking about "rumsfeld's rules" and i decided that i should do that. it started because my mother was a schoolteacher. i started carrying a load cards like this and i still do to this day. she said at the end of the week read them and remind yourself of what they mean and i started writing down the fault or ideas or
. >> let sandy didn't say is that i have lived through one third of the history of the. [applause] which tells you what a young country it is or what an old man i am. i am so pleased to be here. sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction george and gaffe then thank you for supporting this institution. we appreciate it. i am a supporter myself and i thank you. alves sandy said life in traveling around talking about the book "rumsfeld's rules." i'm told that you are...
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four days before the sandy storm hit the east coast users who typed in terms like sandy, hurricane, high wind into google search started seeing official national weather service warning paying more information including maps, news, and how to stay safe. recently through a partnership with the national center for missing and exploited children we started publishing amber alerts. when you receive a message on your phone about child missing, ma the first thing you'll do is search for more information to see if you can help find them. would also build crisis that's what compile information from multiple sources into one single map of people no longer have to search across many websites. following the ultimate tornadoes, i can launch a crisis maps which included red cross shelters, post-disaster and other information. a second lesson that clouds hosting can be enhance the quality of dogmas of critical information. anyone can use google maps and services to create their own maps inescapably. because their open-source anyone can deploy, update and improve our tools. we have learned in some disa
four days before the sandy storm hit the east coast users who typed in terms like sandy, hurricane, high wind into google search started seeing official national weather service warning paying more information including maps, news, and how to stay safe. recently through a partnership with the national center for missing and exploited children we started publishing amber alerts. when you receive a message on your phone about child missing, ma the first thing you'll do is search for more...
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similarly in hurricane sandy, obviously hurricane sandy represented the largest transit disaster in the history of the united states. the morning that the disaster hit, more than half of the transit trips in america were not available. it even days later after baltimore and d.c. and boston came back online, close to 40% of the transit trips in america still were not available. congress has given us can $.9 billion to fda's new emergency relief program, a program we proposed or map-21. when we proposed it we had no concept that anything along the lines of hurricane sandy would hit. but congress had provided his $10.9 billion, hundred of those of which will be sequestered on friday to bring to bear on hurricane sandy with. so we are moving very quickly to put those dollars to work in reverse states across the board and card, the sequestered on the program is very frustrating. overlaying all of those things is the fact that the administrative budget at the fda will be sequestered. unlike vectors, i'm not bitter about it -- [laughter] -- it's an anomaly in the law where our budget comes fro
similarly in hurricane sandy, obviously hurricane sandy represented the largest transit disaster in the history of the united states. the morning that the disaster hit, more than half of the transit trips in america were not available. it even days later after baltimore and d.c. and boston came back online, close to 40% of the transit trips in america still were not available. congress has given us can $.9 billion to fda's new emergency relief program, a program we proposed or map-21. when we...
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and yet president obama after giving that very good speech at sandy hook about sandy hook in newtown, conn. on the sunday after the murders said, we have to change. it is undetectable to continue like this, and i certainly agree with him about that. yet, what we have? something says, well, if repeated may be sometime after ten years it will start to do some good. as a hypothetical. you cannot know. we can know is that it will not do any good for ten years. and that is not acceptable. that is the wrong approach. that is a political approach whose purpose is to divide suburban women from the republican party. that is the mega strategy of what is going on here, and it is not about saving the lives of anyone, especially not saving the lives of schoolchildren. i'm magazines, the national institute of justice said, well, this would do some good if you could confiscate all of the existing supply of magazines. well, that is tens of millions. and that will -- among other things, that will endanger the lives of the law enforcement officers who would be in charge of having to carry out what coul
and yet president obama after giving that very good speech at sandy hook about sandy hook in newtown, conn. on the sunday after the murders said, we have to change. it is undetectable to continue like this, and i certainly agree with him about that. yet, what we have? something says, well, if repeated may be sometime after ten years it will start to do some good. as a hypothetical. you cannot know. we can know is that it will not do any good for ten years. and that is not acceptable. that is...
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thank you for your question about the sandy hook promise. the sandy hook promise, which has been signed by tens of thousands of people raoul across the country, came out of this tragedy because there was a recognition that this was not a sprint, that this was a marathon, that the promise that we needed to make to each other in the wake of this horrific tragedy was not just that we were going to do everything within our power, our individual power to try to reduce the incidence of gun violence -- and us a point out, senator durbin, we have more power, the 100 of us, than almost anyone else and shame on fuss we don't use it. but the problem with the sandy hook promise is that there are so many other things you can do. you can make things in your community to build bigger and better systems of health, you can true i to forge at most fierce in schools that are -- at most spheres in schools that are more positive and inviting. that you can be more thoughtful in your everyday interactions knowing that could be a tragedy around the corner that take
thank you for your question about the sandy hook promise. the sandy hook promise, which has been signed by tens of thousands of people raoul across the country, came out of this tragedy because there was a recognition that this was not a sprint, that this was a marathon, that the promise that we needed to make to each other in the wake of this horrific tragedy was not just that we were going to do everything within our power, our individual power to try to reduce the incidence of gun violence...
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in columbine, in tucson, in aurora n sandy hook. and the next town's name is just waiting to be added to the list if we do nothing. so here's what happened. sometime in the early morning hours of december 14th, a very disturbed, reclusive young man named adam lanza went into his mother's room and shot her dead in her sleep. a few minutes later, maybe hours later, he got into her car, and he drove to sandy hook elementary school. about 9:35, he shot his way through locked doors with an ar-15 semiautomatic rifle that was owned by his mother, and he began a ten-minute rampage that left 20 children -- all 6 and 7-year-olds -- and six adults who cared for them dead. in ten minutes adam lanza got off 154 rounds from a gun that could shoot up to six bullets a second. that high-powered gun assured that every single child that adam lanza shot died. shot most kids multiple times. noah pozner was shot 11 times alone. the state's veteran medical examiner who'd been on the job for decades said he'd never, ever seen anything like this. but seven
in columbine, in tucson, in aurora n sandy hook. and the next town's name is just waiting to be added to the list if we do nothing. so here's what happened. sometime in the early morning hours of december 14th, a very disturbed, reclusive young man named adam lanza went into his mother's room and shot her dead in her sleep. a few minutes later, maybe hours later, he got into her car, and he drove to sandy hook elementary school. about 9:35, he shot his way through locked doors with an ar-15...
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[applause] sandy burger, former national security adviser to president clinton. sandy. [applause] leon feater, former national security adviser to vice president gore. [applause] nancy sotoburg former deputy national adviser to president clinton. [applause] and general wesley clark, former supreme allieded commander europe and director of strategic plans and policies for the joint chiefs of staff, general clark. [applause] i'd also like to recognize terry gardener, the director of the library. terry, thank you. [applause] joseph, the director of the cia information management services. [applause] skip rutherford, the dean of the public school of service. [applause] bruce lipped see, chairman of the board of the clinton foundation. [applause] former secretary of transportation rodney slater. [applause] and governor jim guy tucker. [applause] it is now my pleasure to introduce this. he was the deputy director intelligence of the cia. he was chairman of the national intelligence com and served as a assistant director of central intelligence of analysis and production. he l
[applause] sandy burger, former national security adviser to president clinton. sandy. [applause] leon feater, former national security adviser to vice president gore. [applause] nancy sotoburg former deputy national adviser to president clinton. [applause] and general wesley clark, former supreme allieded commander europe and director of strategic plans and policies for the joint chiefs of staff, general clark. [applause] i'd also like to recognize terry gardener, the director of the library....
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i talked about the $60 billion tab from superstorm sandy. now we have started to address carbon pollution. that's the really good news, because president obama working with senators snowe and feinstein did something very important to make sure we have better fuel economy, and the standards going into effect between 2012 and 2025, they will provide huge benefits. and guess what? twhe program is -- when this program is implemented consumers will save $8,000 over the life of their car. why? because they're getting better fuel economy. i drive a hybrid prius. in california, i'm getting about 140 to 150 miles a gallon because i do my little trips, then i come home and i plug it in. and it's really remarkable. it's saving our family money, and it's helping to save the environment. this is a win-win, win. but if you listen to my friends, they look at it as a lose, lose, lose. they're dour about the idea of taking a lead. we have to take the lead. what we do here impacts the world. when our nation reduces its carbon pollution, it makes a difference.
i talked about the $60 billion tab from superstorm sandy. now we have started to address carbon pollution. that's the really good news, because president obama working with senators snowe and feinstein did something very important to make sure we have better fuel economy, and the standards going into effect between 2012 and 2025, they will provide huge benefits. and guess what? twhe program is -- when this program is implemented consumers will save $8,000 over the life of their car. why?...
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superstorm sandy hit new jersey hard. in our service territory, it took down 48,000 trees which impacted our distribution system. it destroyed 2400 utility poles, many of them are snapped like toothpicks. drove walls of water into 29th of our switching and substations, and damaged our gas lines and meters. over 40,000 of our gas customers were impacted, and almost 2 million of our electric customers lost power. restoration efforts were impeded by a forceful nor'easter that hit a week later. the impact of instruction and the complexity of the work to restore service made communications of all kinds a key component of the sandy recovery effort. before i discuss our social media expense can let me also note the importance of smart grid technology which enables utilities to obtain critical information that can help pin point problems and automate restoration of smart grid technology enhances our ability to communicate with our own system. it can dramatically shorten the time it takes to restore service in the aftermath of a s
superstorm sandy hit new jersey hard. in our service territory, it took down 48,000 trees which impacted our distribution system. it destroyed 2400 utility poles, many of them are snapped like toothpicks. drove walls of water into 29th of our switching and substations, and damaged our gas lines and meters. over 40,000 of our gas customers were impacted, and almost 2 million of our electric customers lost power. restoration efforts were impeded by a forceful nor'easter that hit a week later. the...
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the next vote will be on sandy and matters related to sandy monday night at 5:30. we expect -- i have spoken to the chairman, new chairman of the -- will soon be the chair of the foreign relations committee, and ranking member corker. we're going to have a vote after the business meeting sometime on tuesday on the new secretary of state. the presiding officer: the question is on senate resolution 16. are the yeas and nays requested? the yeas and nays have been requested. is there a sufficient second? there is a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: are will any senators in the chairman per wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 86 and the nays are 9. two-thirds of those voting for adoption having voted in the affirmative and the resolution is agreed to. [inaudible] the presiding officer: without objection. vote: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business, senators allowed to speak for up to ten mi
the next vote will be on sandy and matters related to sandy monday night at 5:30. we expect -- i have spoken to the chairman, new chairman of the -- will soon be the chair of the foreign relations committee, and ranking member corker. we're going to have a vote after the business meeting sometime on tuesday on the new secretary of state. the presiding officer: the question is on senate resolution 16. are the yeas and nays requested? the yeas and nays have been requested. is there a sufficient...
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let's look at what's happened across this nation since sandy hook. in the 120 days since sandy hook, more than 2,200 americans have been killed by gun violence. hardly anyplace was spared. now, we know there are many, many firearms in america. 300 million firearms in the united states. if you were to divide that up, that would be one gun per person. of course, there are many people who just have many, many guns. now, this is a 50% increase in the number of guns in circulation since 1995 when there were, as i say, about half the number. when i go home and i speak about this and i write about it, i say there are 31,000 reasons why we need to pass sensible gun laws. because 31,000, that's the number of people who die every year in america. that's 87 people every single day on average. and you look at this, 31,000 people dying every year from gun violence. and so how do you get a sense of what that is? and i think back to one of the reasons that i got into politics in the first place was the war in vietnam and trying to end it, first as an activist and t
let's look at what's happened across this nation since sandy hook. in the 120 days since sandy hook, more than 2,200 americans have been killed by gun violence. hardly anyplace was spared. now, we know there are many, many firearms in america. 300 million firearms in the united states. if you were to divide that up, that would be one gun per person. of course, there are many people who just have many, many guns. now, this is a 50% increase in the number of guns in circulation since 1995 when...
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my family has been keeping you and be all of the people affected by this tragedy at sandy hook in our thoughts and in our prayers. we're all interested in insuring safe school environment for all of our kids. >> thank you, governor. and i agree. whatever our ideas on how to prevent these unthinkable tragedies in the future, we fervently share the absolute honest commitment to protect and care for the citizens and now, of course, especially for our children. again, thank you, governors. turning to our agenda, i begin by saying that even in recent years when state budgets have been stressed by the great recession, governors have recognized that failure to responsibly and adequately invest in our children's education would be penny wise and pound foolish. educating our students and preparing them for the future work force is paramount to building a healthy society and a strong economy and a nation ready for the competition we're in. in connecticut education is one of our top priorities, and we have enacted significant reforms and made significant new investments in both k-12 and higher e
my family has been keeping you and be all of the people affected by this tragedy at sandy hook in our thoughts and in our prayers. we're all interested in insuring safe school environment for all of our kids. >> thank you, governor. and i agree. whatever our ideas on how to prevent these unthinkable tragedies in the future, we fervently share the absolute honest commitment to protect and care for the citizens and now, of course, especially for our children. again, thank you, governors....
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sandy task force and seeking to remedy or correct perhaps some of the logjams and red tape and deficiencies in process that led the people of our states to wait for so long before they saw relief in practical terms. and so i want to thank them for their eloquence today, for their truly formidable contribution on the issue of climate change and global warming and to thank them also for the very powerful contribution they have made on the response to storm sandy that affected so many people in connecticut. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, i rise to talk about an opportunity, something good that this body could do for the american people, for the economy and for the taxpayers. tomorrow, the senate budget conference that was established as part of this recent agreement that was made over reopening the government and extending the debt limit will meet. this will be the first public meeting of the group. we have had some other meetings, including one i just had with some of the members
sandy task force and seeking to remedy or correct perhaps some of the logjams and red tape and deficiencies in process that led the people of our states to wait for so long before they saw relief in practical terms. and so i want to thank them for their eloquence today, for their truly formidable contribution on the issue of climate change and global warming and to thank them also for the very powerful contribution they have made on the response to storm sandy that affected so many people in...
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and then we tried to take those emergency provisions and put them into the sandy bill, hurricane sandy bill because if you're going to address the disaster for hurricane sandy, as we absolutely should and must, we should also address the disaster of the worst droughts and worst fires in a century. an area in oregon the size of rhode island burned this last summer. the fences burned. farms and ranches devastated. other parts of the country, it was drought. that was devastating. well, the version of the farm bill stuffed in last night doesn't have those emergency provisions. even though this chamber put them in, this chamber supported them. the committee supported them. we also did something else on the floor. we said the historic imbalance between those who farm in a more traditional fashion and those who farm in an organic fashion is going to be righted. under crop insurance there was a provision for organic farmers that said we're going to charge you a lot more for your insurance but in recognition of that, you're going to get the price of organic goods that is higher if you have some
and then we tried to take those emergency provisions and put them into the sandy bill, hurricane sandy bill because if you're going to address the disaster for hurricane sandy, as we absolutely should and must, we should also address the disaster of the worst droughts and worst fires in a century. an area in oregon the size of rhode island burned this last summer. the fences burned. farms and ranches devastated. other parts of the country, it was drought. that was devastating. well, the version...
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john u just mentioned hurricane sandy and the other events that captured attention recently. when the "inconvenient truth" came out. they picked on more than anything else a scene in that movie that featured an animation that showed the ocean water from the atlantic going to have world trade center memorial site. as a result of continuing sea level by the meting ice sheet and the storm surge with the stronger storm. they pointed and said how ridiculous. that's cynical and that could never happen. that's ridiculous. tragically it happened last october 29th. of course, the impact of that event, now $60 billion, $65 billion at last count they called it a once-in a thousand year storm. a lot of people have forgotten actually just one -- 14 months to the day before hurricane sandy hurricane sandy was hurricane irene which costed $15 billion of damage with the biggest impact a little bit farther north of new york city and vice president got the brunt. we are seeing the once in a thousand year event on a regular basis. boulder, colorado was yosemite park with a one-degree increase i
john u just mentioned hurricane sandy and the other events that captured attention recently. when the "inconvenient truth" came out. they picked on more than anything else a scene in that movie that featured an animation that showed the ocean water from the atlantic going to have world trade center memorial site. as a result of continuing sea level by the meting ice sheet and the storm surge with the stronger storm. they pointed and said how ridiculous. that's cynical and that could...
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effects of sandy. at first glance seems that sandy led skeptics to endorse existence and threat of global warming but these people think it is not actually happening, the survey question begins. assuming it is happening. so therefore, their increase is likely to be inconsequential. among people that believe global warming as been happening, sandy did not increase perceived seriousness and did not increase perceptions that global warming was causing storms. most importantly sandy inspired desire for less federal action and reduction in the personal importance of the issue. for those who believe extreme weather is the ticket to americans recognizing the seriousness of this problem, you can't look at these data to see support for that. okay. so this brings us to the end of our smorg gas boring buffet. i hope yourom the updates. i hope you have a sense that the country is and remains remarkably engrew on this issue according to many measures. that greenness varies from state to state but we could not find
effects of sandy. at first glance seems that sandy led skeptics to endorse existence and threat of global warming but these people think it is not actually happening, the survey question begins. assuming it is happening. so therefore, their increase is likely to be inconsequential. among people that believe global warming as been happening, sandy did not increase perceived seriousness and did not increase perceptions that global warming was causing storms. most importantly sandy inspired desire...
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we will not be impact team sandy with each. betray the cut of $544 million will directly impact the rebuilding post-sandy. >> new york as he knows the city with the largest transit city in the world in terms of how we move our people. while that be a $544 million cut to sandy or how much will it affect the transportation? >> at $544 million will be towards the sea and the aid. if i may point out that the important thing is congress approved his mitigation. rebuilding through more resilient standard in the last 18 months that have flooded heart of the transit system, for example. >> five stations in my district. >> as resilient after its will bear the brunt of that cut. >> wow. is it disproportionate to sandy that the rest of the country? >> supplies only to sandy aid. >> my word. is there anyway we can change that? >> if it's the will of congress, obviously. >> why were we able not to sustain the cut in the emergency relief program comes with the cuts went to the transit program? how is that decision made? >> the emergency reli
we will not be impact team sandy with each. betray the cut of $544 million will directly impact the rebuilding post-sandy. >> new york as he knows the city with the largest transit city in the world in terms of how we move our people. while that be a $544 million cut to sandy or how much will it affect the transportation? >> at $544 million will be towards the sea and the aid. if i may point out that the important thing is congress approved his mitigation. rebuilding through more...
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i have seen the devastating effects in my area with hurricane sandy new york, new jersey and connecticut and my district separate huge devastation, rising sea surface storms and greater flooding will only increase if we choose to do nothing so with congress unwilling to act on the issue i am happy the president has acted, has decided to act. some may deny the existence of climate change the science is clear. if people object to the specifics of the president's plan they should propose their own plan for curbing carbon pollution and climate change and the committee should actively pursue the matter. we also know from experience that government can regulate pollution without hurting the economy. many of the ideas that will reduce carbon pollution have grown to new industries, renewable, and capture technology and other technologies that will help mitigate climate change. secretary moniz, you mentioned in your testimony devastation that sandy wrought upon new york, new jersey and connecticut will have a major issue arising from that loss of power, the length of time it took to return. can y
i have seen the devastating effects in my area with hurricane sandy new york, new jersey and connecticut and my district separate huge devastation, rising sea surface storms and greater flooding will only increase if we choose to do nothing so with congress unwilling to act on the issue i am happy the president has acted, has decided to act. some may deny the existence of climate change the science is clear. if people object to the specifics of the president's plan they should propose their own...
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standing there with cked in your feet shoulder width apart, getting kicked in the junk.me it was wet and sandy everyday. there were times that i thoughtt about k quitting. i but i don't know if it was just that i was too lazy to get up and find the bell to ring it,n i but somehow i managed to make in through. >> host: when did you serve? >> guest: i went out in february got of 1999 and got out in february of 2009.3-week >> guest: here is the cover of d his book. a "ameican sniper", the autobiography of the most letha sniper and american history. he is our guest the next hour here on c-span2. th we are ge oing to put the numbes on the screen if you'd like to talk with him.a 202 is thus a bunch in area called. mountain zones, 737-0002 for those of yhe 202 is the error code. area code. dial the numbers at the bottom of your screen, and you can send an e-mail to us at booktv@c-span.org or send a tweet to twitter.com/booktv. no chris kyle, in your bookt youst write that you were not the best shot at all in your class or before you went in as a navy sn. s.e.a.l. >> guest: no, sir, i was middle of th
standing there with cked in your feet shoulder width apart, getting kicked in the junk.me it was wet and sandy everyday. there were times that i thoughtt about k quitting. i but i don't know if it was just that i was too lazy to get up and find the bell to ring it,n i but somehow i managed to make in through. >> host: when did you serve? >> guest: i went out in february got of 1999 and got out in february of 2009.3-week >> guest: here is the cover of d his book. a...
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we are different today than we were before sandy hook. this problem is with us, the problem of gun violence is the same problem that has existed for decades, but we are different. because we know we can and must do something about it. there was evil in that day in sandy hook but there was also great goodness. the goodness of the first responders who stopped the shooting through their bravery when they appeared at the school, the shooter turned the gun on himself. they saved lives. the to your knowledge and courage and bravery of the clergy. father bob, monsignor bob robert weiss, who that evening conducted a vigil that we attended when many resolved to light candles instead of curse the darkness. the greatness of leadership demonstrated by many of our public officials beginning with pat lodra the first secretarywoman of newtown, the legislators who passed in connecticut a measure that will provide a model for the country in attacking the problem of gun violence and the leadership of our governor, dana molloy. and, of course, the great goo
we are different today than we were before sandy hook. this problem is with us, the problem of gun violence is the same problem that has existed for decades, but we are different. because we know we can and must do something about it. there was evil in that day in sandy hook but there was also great goodness. the goodness of the first responders who stopped the shooting through their bravery when they appeared at the school, the shooter turned the gun on himself. they saved lives. the to your...
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we are different today than we were before sandy hook. this problem is with us, the problem of gun violence is the same problem that has existed for decades but we are different because we know we can and must do something about it. there was evil in that day at sandy hook but there was also great goodness. the goodness of the first responders who stopped the shooting through their bravery when they appeared at the school the shooter turned the gun on himself. they saved lives. the courage and bravery of the clergy. father bob, monsignor bob for that evening conducted a vigil that we attended when many results to light candles instead of approaching the darkness. the greatness of leadership demonstrated by many public officials beginning with the first elected woman of newtown and the legislators who passed in connecticut a measure that will provide a model for the country. .. and we will demonstrate the kind of leadership the majority need at this point. they want common sense measures to stop the violence. a lot to have action of this b
we are different today than we were before sandy hook. this problem is with us, the problem of gun violence is the same problem that has existed for decades but we are different because we know we can and must do something about it. there was evil in that day at sandy hook but there was also great goodness. the goodness of the first responders who stopped the shooting through their bravery when they appeared at the school the shooter turned the gun on himself. they saved lives. the courage and...
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tomorrow the senate is expected to take up aid for victims of hurricane sandy. we will have live coverage on c-span2. while we wait for their return earlier today we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to taught at the opening day activities and changes the senate could face. >> the senior congressional reporter for politico. it's opening day for the 113th congress and we are hearing senate majority leader harry reid intends to keep the first legislative day going through most of this month. what is the goal? >> he wants to preserve the rights to change the filibuster rules by 51 votes. the reason why he's doing that is because of the first day of a legislative session is when you deal with the rules package, and then you have the option to purchase some changes by 51 vote majority. typically it requires 67 votes to do it. a very high threshold, it requires a lot of bipartisan support in order to change any senate rules, but there has been a very strong push by the band of mostly junior officers set up with the to gridlock and they blame it on the filibuster and
tomorrow the senate is expected to take up aid for victims of hurricane sandy. we will have live coverage on c-span2. while we wait for their return earlier today we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to taught at the opening day activities and changes the senate could face. >> the senior congressional reporter for politico. it's opening day for the 113th congress and we are hearing senate majority leader harry reid intends to keep the first legislative day going through most of this...